CMS Report - Keyword: spam filter

Yesterday, Dries Buytaert announced on his blog that Acquia has released the next generation of Mollom, the Mollom Content Moderation Platform. The new Mollom platform is being billed by Acquia as the "first cloud content moderation platform built for the enterprise". Mollom is capable of reducing the time that’s required to moderate large volumes of user-generated content. Personally having used Mollom to assist me in moderating small to medium sites, I suspect the need for something like Mollom is even greater for enterprises with an even larger web presence.

Business websites can be crippled by spam; more than 90 percent of the content submitted to websites is unwanted spam, much containing links to irrelevant sites and suspicious offers. Manually deleting spam from comments, registration and contact-form submissions is arduous work. Mollom solves the spam problem for businesses with a cloud platform that filters and removes virtually all spam submissions.

Like most website administrators, I have a long history of fighting spammers and protecting my sites from unwanted content. Over the years I've used a lot of tools and services to block spam from reaching the pages of my sites. In recent years, the service I've relied on most heavily is Mollom. Mollom is a web service that helps you identify content quality and, more importantly, helps you stop spam on your blog, social network or community website Overall I've been very happy with the spam…

As you can see from the statistics below, CMSReport.com has kept Mollom pretty busy with over 99,500 pieces of spam blocked since we started using the service. One statistic I'd like to see collected is how much content Mollom detects as "Ham" but is later identified by the site administrators as actually "Spam". In other words, I'd be curious to see the statistics for Mollom's "false negatives".

Passwords, user accounts, email verification. I have never liked requiring my website's visitors to register before they can leave a comment. There is a large segment of people that like to submit quality comments online, but they don't want to be required to leave their personal information there. So from the beginning, I have always allowed anonymous commenting by unregistered visitors and for the most part, they quality of the comments haven't suffered. However, allowing for anonymous comments also invited my site into a war against comment spam. My latest weapon to do the fighting for me in this war is Mollom.

Akismet is a powerful spam filter that’s built in to WordPress.com. But what if you’re running a self-hosted WordPress blog?This tutorial will give you the simple information you need to install and activate Akismet on your WordPress.org blog.Source

Lots of news this week regarding the open source SilverStripe CMS. It is extremely unusual for CMS Report to post something on SilverStripe as well as something on comment spam twice in one week. Yet, my two favorite companies, Silverstripe Ltd and Mollom, are going to have me do just that because of today's announcement that they've partnered together to help SilverStripe site owners block comment spam on their sites. SilverStripe and Mollom worked together on improving the code in the…

Akismet: "Anyway, a comment is a comment, right, so what’s the harm in approving a few tame platitudes, even if they were posted by spammers? Unfortunately it is harmful, and most of the damage is to your own site." Complete Story

IBM developerWorks: "Spam on the Web is one of the biggest threats to a modern Web developer. The "bad guys" become more and more sophisticated every year in how to vandalize and proliferate ads over any Web 2.0 page they can grasp. To make matters worse, spam is increasingly used to distribute malware. The arms race is on, and Web developers need to know what basic tools are available to battle spam on their Web sites. This two-part …

I'm doing a little morning reading at some of my favorite Internet spots. A couple of this morning's IT related posts that caught my attention:Rich Hoeg (eContent) has created a very nice tutorial/screencast on Google's SearchWiki. Personally, I can't decide if this is a good move for Google or not. It seems to me the biggest benefit of Google is that you go there, do a search, find the link you want, and get out. Internet junkies like me already are too distracted with places like Digg.com…

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